Veterinary Nursing

Please complete an application form. You  may be asked to provide copies of your GCSE certifications and your prior learning will be checked. If eligible for funding you will be asked to attend an interview with the Centre (this can be completed online)

All paperwork is completed for registration with the VetSkill awarding body and RCVS regulatory body. Your Student Veterinary Nurse training cannot start until your registration is complete.

This unit provides the knowledge relating to health and safety within the veterinary practice, as well as legal and ethical duties and professional issues, to prepare for the professional veterinary nursing responsibilities

This unit enables students to develop an understanding of the key principles of imaging and laboratory techniques to support the Veterinary Surgeon in making diagnoses.

This unit provides students with the theoretical underpinning knowledge relating to the care of patients in the veterinary environment.

This unit is intended to develop an understanding of basic pharmacological principles and their application to safe patient care.

This is the half way mark yippee!! A formative practical skills assessment will take place to check your knowledge.

This unit is intended to develop an understanding of the principles of anaesthesia and theatre practice.

This unit provides an understanding of the body’s responses to disease, trauma and pathological change.

This unit aims to build upon the knowledge gained in VN03 on the  Principles of Veterinary Nursing Care.

This unit will give Students specialised knowledge in surgical nursing.

Once all assessments are passed and the e-portfolio is completed then students can be entered for the end point assessment.

Professional Discussion - A structured discussion between the examiner and the student that includes competent based questions. This allows the student to demonstrate their knowledge of different scenarios.

Licence to Practise Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
This is practical assessments to assess the students’ knowledge, skills and behaviours against the apprenticeship standards and the RCVS day one skills for Veterinary Nurses

The e-portfolio is a progressive archive of competency, which records assessment of the Student Veterinary Nurse’s competency over the period of training. The student will accurately map their evidence to the RCVS Day One Skills and to VetSkill criteria.

journey complete!

That’s it you're finished! Mission complete! Just one last step once achieved all units and end point assessment - to apply to the RCVS to be on the register of Veterinary Nurses. Once this is done you are a fully-fledged RVN ready to start a new journey! ☺

Embedded within this qualification is the content required to become a Suitably Qualified Person (SQP) for Companion Animals. A SQP is a legal category of professionally qualified persons who, under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations, are entitled to prescribe and/or supply certain veterinary medicines.

These medicines are categorised as prescription-only medicines prescribed by a veterinary surgeon, pharmacist or suitably qualified person(POM-VPS), and non-food animal non-prescription medicines supplied by a veterinary surgeon, pharmacist or suitably qualified person (NFA-VPS). The veterinary medicinal products an SQP is entitled to prescribe and/or supply depends on the scope of the registration they hold.